An Amateur Begins His Study of Magick.

I've been thinking a lot about Magick lately.

It's something that has always vaguely interested me.
But lately, I've found myself reading books on it and researching it, online.
Early this year, I bought my first Tarot deck and I've been studying up on that. Eventually, I'd like to be able to do readings with it. (I tried one last Christmas, back in Ky, but it was a clunky, awkward affair. I spent most of the reading, looking through my guidebook and referencing translations for the cards. Clearly, I need some more work there.)

For about a week now, I've been re-reading Alan Moore's book "Promethea". It started out as a super-heroine comic book, but 13 issues in, shifts gears dramatically and becomes a fascinating exploration of magick, the Kabbalah, the tarot and how these mysterious forces relate to our worlds. Deep, deep explorations of magick, cunningly hidden inside a "comic book". (The series ends with the central character, ostensibly a hero, bringing Armaggedon to the world.) So, it's a different kind of book.

(to learn more about the book, click on the link that I've provided for you, in my sidebar, to the left or go here.)



I have all of the original issues from when I used to buy the book as a monthly read. But now I'm selling those and buying the trade paperbacks. Because they're MUCH easier to store and carry around. Buying them as trades has given me a nice chance to re-read all of them, in several, long sittings, sifting through the dense writing.

Moore writes in his book, that the Kabbalah was an ancient Jewish mysticism that attempts to "reduce all of human existence to a single, simple forumla", for easy understanding. Their imagery, the Kabbalah Tree of Life, maps out the ten Spheres of Existence and the 22 paths that connect them.


This is a visual representation of the Tree Of Life.

I find it interesting that the nine spheres all correlate to a different planet in our solar system. (With one "Missing" planet, that may correspond to our asteroid belt, which astrologers believe might've been a planet once that was destroyed.)

I find it equally interesting that they also correlate to the nine shokras of the human body. As if each point of energy on our bodies are also connected to a different planet, that governs them.

I find it also interesting that the Hebrew alphabet also has a letter that coincides with each pathway on the tree, or each sphere. And the letters themselves translate to words that reflect the meaning of each sphere.

I am intrigued by the idea that Adam & Eve were not actually people, but were symbolic of amoeba. An idea that perfectly melds biblical teaching with the science that I know and accept.

There are also all sorts of these connections between the modern Tarot deck and the Kabbalah.

I keep running into examples of where these alternate philosophies all seem to be connecting. To weave together a more complex view of our world than I previously knew. I think that there might be something going on here that I know very little about. I look forward to continuing my research, in the coming months.

I walk into all of this as a skeptic. I don't believe in Christ or God or the Guy that my Southern Baptist upbringing tried to sell me on. I am suspicious of people placing faith in things that can't be identified or proven. And I am supremely suspicious of any mortal person manipulating faith and religion to affect the behaviors of their fellow man, here on Earth.

But I DO love language and symbology and I have a sharp eye for smaller events forming the larger picture. After noting as many correlations or coincidences here as I have, I am beginning to think that there might actually be something to all of this.

So, this is all stuff that I've been thinking about lately.

I won't be sacrificing virgins any time soon. But I might have sex with them, if it's offered.

Cheers,
Mr. B